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Westhampton Beach, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Southampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 11978. It lies near Westhampton Island. The Survey maps it on the Quogue quadrangle.

Westhampton Beach within Suffolk County

Then and now

1903 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westhampton Beach, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Westhampton Beach, surveyed 1903

On record in Westhampton Beach

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

109 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Westhampton Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined82
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2015Fireworks1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersSPINNEY FIRE
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Westhampton Beach: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
East Quogue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Quogue Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westhampton Beach in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019HailWesthampton Beach-Hail of 1 inch in diameter reported.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hampton Beach1.3 miles27
Quiogue1.4 miles27
Quogue1.4 miles27
Suffolk Pines1.6 miles27
Westhampton3.1 miles27
East Quogue3.1 miles27
Oakville3.9 miles27
Speonk4.9 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970921. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.